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CSS

Amanda Bater
Amanda Bater
7,686 Points
Posted by Amanda Bater
Amanda Bater
7,686 Points

Why is margin:auto not centering my gallery items?

Practising what I've learned by doing a personal project...designing a website with a gallery, and for mobile view I'd like the gallery items to be in one column that is centered in the middle of the browser window.

I've tried selecting the .gallery and applying margin:auto, but it hasn't worked. Why could this be?

Link to code snapshot: https://w.trhou.se/3apjtrvdt3

4 Answers

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

You are right, I meant to paste in this:

.gallery {
    margin: auto;
    width: 60%;
}

The width needs to be something less than 100%.

Sorry about that.

jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,830 Points

Amanda, usually the reason is that you have the width at 100%. Try something like this instead:

.gallery {
    margin: auto;
    width: 100%;
}
Amanda Bater
Amanda Bater
7,686 Points
Amanda Bater
Amanda Bater
7,686 Points

Hi jcorum. Unfortunately that hasn't worked! :(